NOW SHOWING: LONDON SCREEN GUIDE w/c 24.03.17

To help your hunt for adventurous moving pictures, RADIANT CIRCUS hand-picks screen highlights for the week ahead*. This is a week for exquisite black and white cinema, from our featured film to early masterpieces by Andrzej Wajda and RW Fassbinder.

Our featured film is THE EYES OF MY MOTHER. A.V. Club had the words: “If Ingmar Bergman had helmed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it might look something like this exquisite nightmare”.

Looking for an alternative?SKIN DEEP PRESENTS: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (PREVIEW) + DISCUSSION (20:50) at Genesis Cinema. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, this doc explores the lives and assassinations of James Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers, creating a “a radical narration about race in America”.

SUNDAY 26 MARCH 2017, BARBICAN, 16:30

THE INFERNO UNSEEN + LIVE ELECTRONIC SCORE by Rollo Smallcombe is a world premiere as part of FASHION IN FILM. A newly mastered cut of rushes from Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film, THE INFERNO UNSEEN draws on “some twelve hours of film footage, showing abstract kinetic experiments and… a number of screen and optical effects tests.”

Looking for an alternative?PINTU TERLARANG (aka ‘FORBIDDEN DOOR’) (19:00). Deptford Cinema continues their FILMS OF THE ARCHIPELAGO strand with this Indonesian mashup of “a Hitchcockian plot, elements of body-horror and set design that resembles early David Cronenberg”.

Looking for an alternative? Revisit the evolution of modern skateboarding with DOGTOWN AND THE Z-BOYS at Rich Mix (21:00).

WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH 2017, THE HORSE HOSPITAL, 19:00

DOC HEADS go all shortform with a programme of stories of “the excluded or marginalized”. Evening includes discussion with directors Max Cutting and James Dougan, as well as a screening of their film NIGHTCRAWLERS OF PHNOM PENH.

THURSDAY 30 MARCH 2017, CLOSE-UP, 19:30

PRISMATIC MUSIC: THE FILMS OF JOSPEH BERNARD according to Brand New Blinkers is an evening of “the most maximalist home movies ever made”. Bernard describes his own work as follows: “These films are not based on the page or the theatre, they don’t tell a story and, in fact, are (all but one) intentionally without sound… just something purely, emphatically visual… the movement of light and color.”

Looking for an alternative?HOW WE USED TO LIVE + Q&A with Director Paul Kelly (19:30) is a documentary celebration of post-war London at Regent Street Cinema. Includes a screening of the short WEATHER THE STORM.

INNOCENT SORCERERS screens at Close-Up (24 MARCH, 19:30) as part of KINOTEKA.

FESTIVALS / LONGER RUNS / TALKS

BFI finishes FLARE, London’s LGBT film festival. Best day for availability at time of writing was the final one, SUNDAY 26 MARCH.